Political Theatre category archive
Debate Dodgeball 0
Arizona Senator Martha McSally can’t give a straight answer to a direct question.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Will Bunch looks at newly released evidence of Republicans’ efforts to undermine the power of the polling place. A nugget (emphasis added):
“Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity (sic) are,” Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee wrote on Twitter Thursday, as the formerly silent part of voter suppression is now becoming a roar. “We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.”
The American Antithesis 0
At the Bangor Daily News, Jack Nobel makes the case that Donald Trump is antithetical to America’s founding values (however sporadically and imperfectly those values may have been manifest in the past). A snippet:
The Answer 0
Charniele Herring answers Donald Trump at The Roanoke Times. A nugget:
Giving America the Business 0
At The Roanoke Times, Nancy Liebrecht skewers the notion that successful business persons are ipso facto qualified to run governments.
Let alone unsuccessful ones.
Unfortunately, Donald Trump is not a successful businessman. He is talented at creating that image, but his trail of bankruptcies, scams, and failed businesses should have warned voters of his inherent incompetence. 200,000 deaths later, we are paying the price for ignoring his record.
More at the link.
Twits on Twitter 0
Aside:
Many years ago, maybe a decade and a half or so, I heard one of the founders of Twitter interviewed on NPR about what a great contribution Twitter would make to our discourse.
Methinks he was, as my old boss would have said, in error.
The Vacuous Cycle 0
I have avoided the “gee whiz here’s the latest” coverage of Donald Trump’s stay at Walter Reed, because there is, in my estimation, too much guessing and, without a doubt, too little openness truthfulness from the current federal administration (leading in turn to said “too much guessing”; it’s a vacuous cycle). To put it another way, I’m content to wait until tomorrow to see what today brought.
If you can’t tear yourself away from it, though, the Poynter Institute’s senior writer Tom Jones offers some guidance.
Debating the Debates 0
The San Franscisco Chronicle’s John Diaz takes a measured look at the question of whether, given the chaotic nature* of last Tuesday’s debate, the remaining ones should be cancelled. He concludes no. A snippet; follow the link for his reasoning:
This would be regrettable for American democracy. The debate was tough to watch, but it also was illustrative.
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*Not forgetting that the chaos emanated from a single source.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Language.